Scott replaced by Wrobleski on Dodgers' roster

Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott was removed from the team's National League Division Series roster on Thursday after having a lower-body abscess incision the night before, manager Dave Roberts announced before Game 4 of the series.

- BY JACK HARRIS

MAX MUNCY tries to control the ball as the Phillies' Bryson Stott steal third in the fifth inning.

(GINA FERAZZI Los Angeles Times)

Scott was replaced on the roster by left-hander Justin Wrobleski, and will be ineligible to play in the National League Championship Series under MLB's postseason injury rules if the Dodgers do advance.

Coming off a dismal regular season in which he had 4.74 ERA and MLB-most 10 blown saves, Scott had yet to pitch, or even warm up, at any point in this postseason.

Then, this week, he began dealing with an abscess in an unspecified area of his lower body.

Roberts said signs of the issue first popped up during the team's Tuesday night workout. However, leading up to Game 3, general manager Brandon Gomes said the team “thought he was on the other side of it.”

That did not prove to be the case. Scott not only was in too much pain to even report to Dodger Stadium for Wednesday night's contest, but instead went for an incision procedure that Roberts described as an “urgent matter.”